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Facts that adults don’t tell you about bullying
– Communication doesn’t work on bullies. Telling a bully they’re making you feel bad is the wrong way to go. They want to make you feel bad. That’s the point.
– being kind to a bully doesn’t always mean they’ll stop. Sometimes it means they’ll just use your kindness to manipulate you while still continuing to bully you.
– not every bully has a sympathetically tragic home life. Sometimes people are just mean. Sometimes people just get off on hurting others.
– on that note, a tough home life is a reason, not an excuse. You don’t have to put up with bullying because somebody’s life sucks, just like you don’t have to let someone mug you because they’re broke.
– in order to forgive someone, they have to apologize first. If your bully has not apologized to you, you do not owe them anything.
– getting bullied as a kid can still mess you up in adult life. Maybe kids grow out of being bullies, but the marks they left often don’t go away.
– there are ways to get people to stop bullying you, but they almost all involve being mean back.
– as long as parents keep raising shitty bullying kids, there will be bullies. No amount of assemblies and hand-drawn posters will fix the problem. It’s the parents’ fault.
– It’s not your responsibility to fix your bully or to stop the abuse they send your way, but some adults sure will act like it is.
– Many times (especially in the case of girls) your friends can be your bullies. This makes things even worse as these are people who know you and your intimate secrets and use them to their advantage. If your friends are bullies, don’t take crap from them. Get new friends.
im gonna throw in that its never your fault, people will pick a target to gang up on because theyd rather it be you than them. even if you think “this must be because im weird”- everyone is weird, in different ways. anyone can be made a target. it’s not just you for some reason in particular, i promise.
We watched a video in class about a lady who started life in a refugee camp and ended up being an engineer in America. The kiddos had to write her a letter in response to this video – only they all latched onto the software she was shown to use. Half of the letters are “please teach me how to work with Eplan”.
The school’s email adresses for pupils follow the “lastnamefirstname@pupil-schoolname.be” logic, so I’ve been manually entering them so I can send corrected assignments their way (I’ve asked for the list of emails so I could just copy-paste them, but I didn’t get it).
Only it turns out the school couldn’t be bothered with our pupil-with-the-long-indian-name’s full surname, and he just gets “firstname@pupil-schoolname.be”.
Even though there are pupils with Dutch surnames that are also 15 letters long so I don’t know why they can bother with those but not with his.
Discworld is nice Bc half the plots sound like shitposts
Skeleton quits job to become fry cook
Wizards play football
Malls are actually a hive mind who feed on cities
Fighting to Save Indigenous Sign Languages | The Tyee
Sign languages are often overlooked in endangered-language revitalization, but some determined individuals are working to change that – an article in The Tyee. Excerpt:
Max and Marsha Ireland live near London, Ont. They are Haudenosaunee Shawnee of the Six Nations Iroquois, which include the Oneida Nation.
Marsha is a deaf member of the Turtle Clan and will turn 60 in December. Max is 59 and a Bear Clan member. Together they have five children. Four are totally deaf, and one can hear with a hearing aid. They have nine grandchildren. Seven are deaf and only two can speak and hear.
With the help of Elder Olive Elm, the couple has come up with 250 signs, a 13-letter alphabet (just like spoken Oneida) and signs that let people count up to 100. They are determined to create an Oneida Sign Language based on Plain Indigenous Sign Language once widely used by Indigenous people, not ASL.
“It is a combination of reviving and expanding. A connection with the spoken-word Oneida. So we are developing signs that go with that. We have also included some earlier Plain Sign Language to be incorporated with that as well,” said Max Ireland.
Due to their work, the Irelands have met Indigenous people from Ontario, Quebec and B.C. Some remembered their Elders using sign language.
“They say, ‘Oh, I remember my grandmother talking like that. I remember my grandfather talking like that.’ It’s been around,” said Max Ireland.
“Like our own spoken language, it is not being promoted and used the way it should be.”
Indigenous Sign Language provides deaf First Nation individuals with a chance to participate in the community and connect with their Indigenous spoken language, he said.
Kids Meet A Deaf Person
So, I found this really fun YouTube channel where kids get to meet all kinds of different people and ask whatever questions they want about what makes them different/unique and I think it’s an amazing thing because so many parents are afraid to let their children ask questions in fear of them being “offensive” — but this is such a great way to educate and expose young people –
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
I wish tumblr would send me updates on the spam blogs I report. ‘your efforts helped remove 200 spam accounts this months!’
De Gene Zijde 